It's about a little boy named Danny who is looking for the perfect birthday gift for his mother.

He asks the advice of several different animals until he gets the perfect idea from Mr. Bear - a big Birthday Bear Hug!

I specifically picked this book for this week because Matt's birthday is coming up and we were planning a party for Friday night.

As their gift to him, the girls painted a puppet theatre I assembled from a cardboard box, colored and cut out the animals and gift suggestions from the story, glued popsicle sticks to the back to create puppets and performed a puppet show of the story the night of the party!

At the end of the show, they gave their Daddy his very own Birthday Bear Hug!

Definitely my favorite moment of the whole week!

But they didn't stop there!

You see, we had also discussed 'advice' as part of our learning about the story.

We talked about how its good to sometimes ask others advice but you don't have to take their advice.

The girls put this into practice by calling various family members and asking what they thought Piper and Taitum should get their Daddy for his birthday!

My little phone talkers LOVED this part of the project!

Once they collected everyone's advice, we put together a puppet show similar to Ask Mr. Bear in which they presented what everyone's advice was and their final decision to take Mrs. Mama's advice: Put on a fabulous puppet show for their Daddy!

I didn't get many pictures of the actual performance (since I was the narrator) but these are the puppets from the story they made up.

The puppet show was great entertainment at the party and the girls (joined by their cousin Emile) had so much fun putting it on!